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Skykomish, Washington

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1975. It stands in the Snoqualmie Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98288. It stands on Malaney Creek. The Survey maps it on the Skykomish quadrangle. 161 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 928 feet above sea level.

Skykomish within King County

On record in Skykomish

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Skykomish fell from 198 to 161 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010198
2020161-37 (-19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 16 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

52 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Skykomish between 1992 and 2020, burning about 53 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 2 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Recreation and ceremony20
Natural10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning2
Other causes1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National ForestFOSS RIVER 2
7 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National ForestBUCKET
28 September 1998Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
2 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National ForestSKYKOMISH
18 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National ForestLOWE
18 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forestnot named
14 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSKY
11 September 2017Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersALPINE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in King County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 75 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 75 workings within 5 miles of Skykomish: 37 unknowns, 13 occurrences, 13 past producers, 12 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Copper, Antimony. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Akishin ClaimSilver, Zinc, Lead, Gold, CopperProspect
BaringChromiumUnknown
Beckler River PitStonePast Producer
Black Dike ProspectCopper, IronOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Magnetite, Pyrite
Gold Mountain ProspectAntimony, Gold, Silver, CopperOccurrence1900
Grand CentralGold, AntimonyOccurrencePyrite, Stibnite
Great RepublicAntimony, Gold, SilverOccurrenceVein
KimballGold, Silver, AntimonyProspect
King and KinneyCopper, Zinc, Silver, Lead, GoldProspect
Lynn ProspectCopper, Gold, Lead, Silver, ZincProspect

Every working recorded in King County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Miller River2.2 miles16
Grotto3.8 miles16
Baring8.0 miles16
Nordrum (historical)13.9 miles18
Denny Creek20.9 miles16
Rockdale22.4 miles16
Ernies Grove23.7 miles16
Bandera24.1 miles13

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on SkykomishAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1508141The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1525897. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.